Helping hand for youngsters The Ocean Youth Club's 70ft training vessel Francis Drake is pictured being given a helping hand by Ramsey's Oakley James Ball Ritchie on 8 August, 1988.
The yacht's auxiliary engine...
The start of last year's Sheffield Marathon which raised, mainly through the sponsorship of individual runners, a remarkable £24,000 for the RNLI. It is an annual event with some 6,000 entrants and Sheffield branch, together with... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 10TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 6.15 in the evening the coastguard reported a sailing yacht approaching from the north. The River Girvan was very full of water, which was pouring through the harbour, and he thought...
Tynemouth, Northumberland. On the afternoon of the 1st July, 1961, the life- boat Tynesider was launched to take out members of the Tynemouth and South Shields ladies' life-boat guilds.
After returning from the trip she...
Crew of two survive yacht fire and explosionTwo people and their dog had a very lucky escape last October when a fire and explosion ripped through their 27ft yacht.
Whitstable's Atlantic 21 was searching within 100...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—• During the afternoon of the 19th September, 1938, the local motor fishing boat Patriot went to the Blackwater Light-vessel to fetch a man ashore.
As, when she was due to return, a strong...
Barrow, Lancashire. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 17th December, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary a local shipping agent had informed him that a member of the crew of the tanker Olivia Maersk of Copenhagen had fallen down a...
A SERVICE of commemoration and re- dedication to mark the restoration of the tomb of the founder of the life-boat Institution, Sir William Hillary, was held at St. George's Parish Church in Douglas, Isle of Man, on 17th...
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Number lifeboat, the 54ft Arun City of Bradford IV, off Spurn Point. The lifeboat, her coxswain, Brian Sevan, and his crew are the subject of a comprehensive BBC! television documentary series due to start in late Autumn. To film the seven... - View image in PDF
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